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Review: <em>Doomsday Book</em> by Connie Willis

Connie Willis is one of the few authors capable of humor, humanity, and what must be an ungodly amount of…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Upgrade</em> by Blake Crouch

Upgrade is a fun, fast-paced near-future adventure by Blake Crouch, whose past two books I really enjoyed. In Upgrade, a…

3 years ago

Review: <em>The Sky is Yours</em> by Chandler Klang Smith

The Sky is Yours is a genre-bending book that takes place in a wild, post-apocalyptic world with both dragons and…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Battle of the Linguist Mages</em> by Scotto Moore

This frenzied page-turner takes some delightfully unhinged ideas (invasion by alien punctuation, rave-themed VR dungeons, and a plane of existence…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Rabbits</em> by Terry Miles

Rabbits is a wild, surreal story that combines the bizarre conspiracies of X-Files and geeky fun of Ready Player One.…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Borne</em> by Jeff VanderMeer

Author Jeff VanderMeer is known for his surreal sci-fi Southern Reach trilogy (the first book was Annihilation, which was made…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Lagoon</em> by Nnedi Okorafor

A giant spaceship lands in the waters offshore of Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria, and things get out…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Project Hail Mary</em> by Andy Weir

I’m a huge fan of Andy Weir’s first book, The Martian, and his new book, Project Hail Mary, is even…

4 years ago

Review: <em>Halting State</em> by Charles Stross

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: thirty orcs and a dragon rob a bank… No? That’s the premise of…

5 years ago

Review: <em>Hearts of Oak</em> by Eddie Robson

There’s a sub-sub-sub genre of books out there I’ll call "Baffling Worlds." The main character is in a world so…

5 years ago